The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of directors' leadership style and the type of
decision-making on improving child care teachers' job satisfaction which is essential to operate
high-quality nursing. The survey method was used for 184 child care teachers who work for child
care centers. The collected data were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance and posteriori
test to find out the differences in teachers' job satisfaction according to their recognition of directors'
leadership and decision-making. The result showed that differences exist in child care teachers' job
satisfaction according to the leadership and decision-making of directors as recognized by the
teachers. The score of child care teachers' self-development, work, welfare & social stability related
to job satisfaction hit the highest when directors' leadership type was efficiency-centered. Similarly,
participatory decision-making type, which is the most ideal type, scored the highest in all
sub-components of job satisfaction in the case of directors' type of decision-making. This implies
that the directors who prefer positive leadership and democratic participatory decision-making type
increase teachers' job satisfaction which will positively affect the child care centers' qualitative
development.